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Quotes Nov. 22, 2018

5 years ago

George Eliot Quotes

British - Author November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

George Eliot

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. - George Eliot Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

George Eliot

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

George Eliot

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

George Eliot

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

George Eliot

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

George Eliot

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

George Eliot

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lilosophie
5 years ago
suffer the slavery of being a girl.

I went LOL, but in some ways this attitude still prevails among some males.Well, I suppose "we" just have to keep on and show them!
anneliese32
5 years ago
Mary Anne Evans had first hand experience with "suffer the slavery of being a girl". Could not get published until she assumed the pseudonym of George Eliot. I like the rest of the quotes too.

Know a bit of that feeling, since I was the first female who went to an all male college and profession in Germany way back in 1949.
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